My husband Paul was treated seriously wonderfully on a recent work trip to Hawaii. I wanted to see if once again I could adapt the
Folding Flower pattern to make a few colorful giant Hibiscus flowers as thank you cards for his host's heartfelt gifts they sent back for me.
Using the same pattern as the roses, I took the largest petal shape (petal no.1) and extended them a bit longer and more ruffled at the tips, made a double layer out of natural texture tropical-color papers from
Paper Source, reshaped the stamen to be longer and made a dimensional criscross at the tip only.
I shaded the throat and edges on all sides of the petal layers with blending chalks in deeper matching colors. Big over-sized leaves added a nice contrast underneath as well as a little paper bees with glassine wings added on make for a little living touch.
Mahalo to all! Questions?
ENHANCE! Aloha! Close-er up of bloom by Paper Forest reader request! All the better to see it with? See the dimensional stamen tip?
For a limited time (until October 31st!) you can download a free Halloween board game from the Disney Experience. The models at this site are always top notch, so get yours before you can't anymore!
My husband Paul was treated seriously wonderfully on a recent work trip to Hawaii. I wanted to see if once again I could adapt the Folding Flower pattern to make a few colorful giant Hibiscus flowers as thank you cards for his host's heartfelt gifts they sent back for me.
ENHANCE! Aloha! Close-er up of bloom by Paper Forest reader request! All the better to see it with? See the dimensional stamen tip?
More Halloween fun this time courtesy of Christopher Bonnette. You can grab both of these papertoys from his site here just click on the downloads button then paper craft.
Halloween is just around the corner and I've been seeing lots of cool and creepy papertoys. Over the next couple of weeks I'll be posting them.
